Boxalino Magento 1.x plugin

Introduction

Welcome to the Boxalino Magento 1.x plugin.

IMPORTANT: This project is obsolete and has been replaced by https://github.com/boxalino/plugin-magento1-v2

The Boxalino plugin for Magento enables you to easily and quickly benefit from all the functionalities of Boxalino Intelligence:

1. Boxalino Intelligent Search with auto-correction and sub-phrases relaxation
2. Faceted search with advanced multi-type facets (refinement criteria), including the capacity to create smart facets based on unstructured textual content with our text-mining capacities and soft-facets to boost best scoring products with our unique smart-scoring algorithms.
3. Boxalino Autocomplete with advanced textual and product suggestion while you are typing (even if you type it wrong)
4. Boxalino Recommendations for real-time personalized product suggestions
5. Boxalino Optimization platform to improve step-by-step your online sales performance thanks to our revolutionary self-learning technology based on statistical testing of marketing strategies (a/b testing, self-learning clusters, and much more)

The Boxalino plugin for Magento pre-integrates the most important key technical components of Boxalino (so you don't have to):

1. Data export (including products, customers and transaction exports for multi-shops with test and live accounts and supporting regular delta synchronizations)
2. Boxalino tracker (pre-integration of Boxalino JavaScript tracker, our own tracker which follows strictly the Google Analytics model).
3. Search, Autocomplete and layered navigation (faceted navigation) with all intelligence functionalities pre-integrated (auto-correction, sub-phrases relaxation, etc.)
4. Similar and Complementary recommendations on product page and cross-selling on basket (cart) page

In addition, it is very easy to extend this pre-installed set-up to benefit from the following additional features:

1. Layered navigation, to let Boxalino optimize the entire product navigation on your web-site
2. Recommendations everywhere (easy to extend recommendations widgets on the home page, category pages, landing pages, content pages, etc.).
3. Quick-finder to enable new ways to find product with simple search criteria and compine it with soft-facets with our unique smart-scoring capacities (see an example here with the gift-finder of www.geschenkidee.ch).
4. Personalized newsletter & trigger personalized mail (use the base of data export and tracking from our plugin to simply integrate personalized product recommendations in your e-mail marketing activities and push notifications on your mobile app)
5. Advanced reporting to integrate any learnings and analysis of your online behaviors in other Business Intelligence and Data Mining projects with our flexible Reporting API functionalities

If you need more information on any of these topics, please don't hesitate to contact Boxalino at sales@boxalino.com. We will be glad to assist you!

N.B.: This project is for Magento 1, in case you need our plugin for Magento 2, please go to https://github.com/boxalino/plugin-magento2)

Installation

1. Download and unzip the archive.
2. Go to the directory you just unzipped the plugin into.
3. Copy all files and directories into main Magento directory.
4. Set chmod for Boxalino directory and files:
   • chmod 755 -R app/code/local/Boxalino
   • chmod 755 app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/boxalino.xml
   • chmod 755 -R app/design/frontend/base/default/template/boxalino/*
   • chmod 755 app/etc/modules/Boxalino_*.xml
   • chmod 755 skin/frontend/base/default/css/boxalinoCemSearch.css
   • chmod 755 skin/frontend/base/default/js/boxalinoAutocomplete.js
   • chmod 755 skin/frontend/base/default/js/jquery-1.10.2.min.js
   • chmod 755 skin/frontend/base/default/js/jquery-noConflict.js
5. Clear the cache:
   • System > Cache Management - Flush Magento Cache
   • System > Cache Management - Flush Cache Storage
6. Update the administrator role:
   • System > Permissions > Roles > Administrators - Save Role
7. Follow the [documentation PDF] to create your first product index, needed to enable search & recommendations.
8. Set up a an indexing cronjob, running at least one full index per day. Use the delta indexer if you want to update more than once per hour.

Documentation

The latest documentation is available upon request.